The news has spread over the internet at digg and many other sites: Google is changing its interface. Here is a picture of the new interface. It is the same old interface with one modification: a side bar to the left. It's not my picture and I haven't, as most of you, seen Google with the new interface. Some people say the the picture is false. Who knows!

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Klingon (tlhIngan Hol), a language created by Dr Marc Okrand, a professional linguist, for use by the alien Klingons in some of the Star Trek movies. To make Klingon sound truly alien, Okrand used combinations of sounds which do not exist in any natural language. It is a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar and usage.

There is even an instute named The Klingon Language Institute that promotes and supports this language.

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